# mound

> English word · Noun · IPA /maʊnd/ · frequency rank #13,021

## Definitions
1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
2. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
3. Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
4. A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
5. The mons veneris.
6. A hand.
7. A protection; restraint; curb.
8. A helmet.
9. Might; size.
10. a large amount of something.

## Etymology
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

## Easily confused with
- **MUD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mud)
- **mun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mun)
- **muni** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-muni)
- **Munn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-munn)
- **mudd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mudd)
- **moved** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-moved)
- **mouth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mouth)
- **mount** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mount)
- **mouse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mouse)
- **mourn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mourn)
- **mowed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mowed)
- **Mundy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mundy)
- **mounts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mounts)
- **mounted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mound-vs-mounted)
- **mod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mod-vs-mound)
- **mon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mon-vs-mound)
- **mou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mou-vs-mound)
- **mind** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mind-vs-mound)
- **moon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/moon-vs-mound)
- **mood** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mood-vs-mound)

## Common misspellings (7)
`mmound`, `monud`, `moudn`, `moundd`, `mounnd`, `muond`, `omund`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mound